rolfdekens

 

Rolf Dekens NSC

Director of Photography
Born September 18, 1978
Living in Los Angeles, California
Living in Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Member of the Netherlands Society of
Cinematographers (NSC).


Awards & nominations

Secrets of War

Chicago International Children’s Film Festival
Winner Adult’s Jury Award.

Castellinaria International Festival of Young Cinema
Winner Golden Castle.

Toronto Film Festival Official Selection.

Dutch Film Festival
Winner Golden Calf Special Jury Award.

Stony Brook Filmfestival
Winner Audience Choice Award.

Tromso Film Festival Norway
Winner Best Film.

Annie M.G. Schmidt’s Wiplala

India International Children’s Film Festival
Winner Best Film.

Mill Valley International Film Festival
Winner Audience Gold Award.

Voorbij

Eye Film Institute
Official Selection Best Dutch Shorts

The President

Tiburon California International Film Festival
Winner Best Comedy.

Faith

Coney Island Film Festival Winner
Best Short Film.

Indie Spirit Film Festival
Winner Best Narrative Short

Lighthouse International Film Festival
Winner – Audience Choice Award for Best Short Film

Bunny

Official Selection Tribeca Film Festival.

Official Selection Gold Coast International Film Festival.

Official Selection Williamstown Film Festival

First day of peace

Slamdance Winner
Best Narrative Short.

Filmography

Feature Film selected work

Dead Again in Tombstone

Universal Pictures – Roel Reiné

Storm

Phantavision – Dennis Bots

Annie M.G. Schmidt’s Wiplala

BosBros – Tim Oliehoek

Secrets of War

Bijker Film / Rinkel Film – Dennis Bots

Chez Nous

BosBros – Tim Oliehoek

The President

Lemming Film – Erik de Bruyn

Pizza Maffia

IDTV FILM – Tim Oliehoek

Spy of Orange

Fu Works – Tim Oliehoek

Alibi

NL Film – Johan Nijenhuis

Too Fat Too Furious

Fuworks en Motel Film – Tim Oliehoek


Short Film selected work

Baron 1898

Bijker Film & TV – Tim Oliehoek

Voorbij

Lake Productions – Elbe Stevens

Flight of Life

Samurai Films – Elbe Stevens

Anatole

Lake Productions – Elbe Stevens

Bunny

Columbia University New York – Robert Snow

First day of peace

Columbia University New York – Mirco Rucnov

Faith

Columbia University New York – Erik Pagan


Drama TV mini selected work

Tokyo Trial // Netflix Original Series

NHK/Fatt/Don Carmody – Rob King/Pieter Verhoeff

The Fall of Aantjes

Waterland Film – Anne van der Linden

Eileen

Samurai Films – Elbe Stevens

Godforsaken

Pupkin Film – Tim Oliehoek


2nd unit DOP / Camera operator selected work

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

Millennium Films – Patrick Hughes

Hard Target 2

Universal Pictures – Roel Reiné

Admiral

Farmhouse Productions – Roel Reiné

The Man with the Iron Fist II

Universal Pictures – Roel Reiné

Tricked

Entertainment Experience – Paul Verhoeven

Nova Zembla

Eyeworks Film & TV – Reinout Oerlemans

Lahore

Warner Bros/Sai Om Films – Sanjay Chauhan

Chaos

Mobius International – Tony Giglio


Commercial selected work

Amstel

Bijenkorf

Disneyland Paris

Danone

Fiat

Heineken

KPN

McDonalds

Telfort

Quaker


Music videos selected work

Hans Zimmer

Live on Tour – Tim van Someren

Armin van Buuren

This is what it feels like – Svenno Koemans

Armin van Buuren

Shivers – Svenno Koemans

Within Temptation ft. Xzibit

Hamman Media- Tim Smit

Wouter Hamel

Corrino –  Joost Ruigrok